Khuong Lam
Tech Lead · Indie Hacker
Engineering leader with 10+ years building scalable systems. Led teams shipping products from zero to production. Now focused on building small, useful tools as an indie hacker. Prefer boring technology, simple architectures, and shipping over polishing.
Experience
Led engineering team of 8 engineers, shipping 3 major product launches from concept to production.
Key Achievements
- Designed microservices architecture handling 10M+ requests/day
- Established CI/CD practices reducing deployment time by 70%
- Mentored 5 engineers, 2 promoted to senior roles
- Introduced code review culture and engineering best practices
Technical lead for payment processing team, responsible for core transaction systems.
Key Achievements
- Shipped payment processing system handling $50M+ annually
- Led migration from monolith to microservices architecture
- Reduced API response time by 60% through caching strategy
- Built real-time fraud detection system
Full-stack developer working on web applications and internal tools.
Key Achievements
- Built real-time notification system serving 100K+ users
- Developed internal tools reducing manual work by 40%
- Implemented automated testing, increased coverage from 20% to 80%
Internship during final year of university. Learned enterprise software development.
Responsibilities
- Developed features for internal CRM system
- Fixed bugs and wrote unit tests
- Participated in code reviews
Selected Builds
50+ projects built. A few highlights: view all →
- git-clean — CLI tool to bulk delete stale Git branches
- webhook-relay — Forward webhooks to localhost for development
- invoice-gen — Generate PDF invoices from YAML files
- dotfiles-sync — Sync dotfiles across machines with encrypted secrets
Skills
Education
Bachelor of Computer Science University Name Sep 2010 – Jun 2014